SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

The Constitution of the United States was drafted by the Philadelphia Convention and signed on 17 September 1787, which is why it is counted as the world's first written democratic constitution.

The Jnanpith Award is India's highest literary honour, given to an author for an outstanding contribution to literature. It was instituted in 1961 by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust and first awarded in 1965 to the Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup for his collection Odakkuzhal.

Ottamthullal is a solo dance-and-recitation art form of Kerala. It was created in the eighteenth century by the poet Kunchan Nambiar, who used it to make fun of the powerful in simple Malayalam that ordinary people could follow.

The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002 made free and compulsory education a fundamental right. It inserted Article 21A, under which the State shall provide free and compulsory education to every child between the ages of six and fourteen years.

The bronze medal of Tejaswin Shankar was praised on the ground that competing across such demanding events over two days calls for exceptional versatility, endurance and resolve, and he showed all three while finishing his campaign strongly.

Parul Chaudhary finished third in that race at the Asian Games and, on her way to the podium, clocked her personal best, which is the detail that made her bronze stand out.

Tejaswin Shankar finished third in the men's decathlon at the Asian Games and took the bronze medal, and the achievement was praised because the decathlon spreads demanding events across two days and asks for versatility, endurance and resolve together.

Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms to produce raw silk. Mulberry or other host plants are grown, the worms are fed on the leaves until they spin cocoons, and the cocoons are then boiled and reeled into thread.

Abhay Singh finished second in the men's singles draw, and the Prime Minister noted that the medal reflected years of hard work along with his skill and determination.

Harita Bhadra reached the podium in the women's 200m at her very first Asian Games, racing with confidence and determination according to the Prime Minister's message.

The correct answer is the Women's Long Jump, where Ancy Sojan finished with silver in a performance the Prime Minister described as strong and spirited.

The correct answer is Anahat Singh, who finished second in the women's singles squash draw and was praised for holding her own against some of the strongest players in the competition.

The Ministry of Culture said this year's auction is the eighth in the series and that bidding stays live until the second day of October, with the dates, the way to take part and the whole catalogue placed on the portal pmmementos.gov.in.

The catalogue places these works beside a Phad painting of Lakshmi and Narayan and a Pattachitra-style picture of Krishna Raas Leela, all three being ways of telling a devotional story through art. Pushkar is wrong because it comes into the collection through the Brahma Temple, shown as part of the…

That is the size of the Rajasthan set described by the Ministry of Culture, and the pieces are spread across woodwork, silver mementos of folk deities, devotional painting, textiles, framed views of heritage shrines and memorabilia of recent events and sporting achievement.

The Ministry of Culture drew attention to a group of mementos in this year's auction that stand for the state's folk deities, devotional painting, textile craft, architectural heritage and sporting achievement, from the Ambabari elephant with its howdah to the silver figures of Veer Tejaji Maharaj.

He founded the Suryavamsi Gajapati dynasty of Odisha in 1435. Kapilendra Deva was a minister who took the throne when the Eastern Ganga line ended, and he built the largest empire Odisha ever had, stretching from the lower Ganga in the north to the Kaveri in the south.

India's literacy rate at independence in 1947 is put at about 12 per cent. Colonial education reached only a thin urban layer, and the figure for women was far lower, around six per cent.

Ranmale is a folk theatre of Goa, performed mainly in the Sattari and Sanguem areas. It is staged at night in the open during the Shigmo festival and around Holi, in front of a village temple.

Lead and mercury are in fact the poorest conductors of heat among the metals, so calling them the best is wrong.